[thesnider]

Yes, if they're running NTP anyway. Normal clock drift/skew correction would already cause this sort of thing.

[jjoonathan]

Sure, but I bet you could find a good number of production systems that have never before had to handle a delta as large as 1s.

[rakoo]

I'm pretty sure OpenBSD core doesn't have any of those, and that's really what the project is caring about. Problems may happen in ports, but there's a reason why they're ports.

Also, as stated in the article:

> Finally, if you are one of the exceedingly few people for whom the clock being off by a second actually matters, then I'm pretty sure you also know how to deal with it.

[erichurkman]

Shouldn't `ntp`, over a short period of time, simply lengthen the actual amount of wall clock time per 'second' exposed to the kernel/userland? So there should never be a huge delta of 1s, nor should time ever go in reverse.